Kwame Mainu had agreed that his daughter, Akosua, could have the old dog, Takoradi, after he retired from police service as a drugs sniffer. Akosua also helped to care for Professor Tom Arthur's little son, so when it came to the time for Takoradi's afternoon walk, father and daughter decided to go with both dog and pushchair.....

Late one evening in the summer of 1996, Akos Mary, the Ghanaian wife of Kwame Mainu's English friend, Tom Arthur, fell unconscious after being cursed by a fetish priest. She was rushed to Komfo Anokye Hospital in Kumasi where there was only a skeleton staff on duty. They found other patients waiting and progress was very slow....

Kwame Mainu suspected that the Lebanese drugs traders in Kumasi in the mid-1990s might not only be exporting to the UK by also planning to sell their wares on the local market. He thought that they might begin by introducing them first at their parties where they could initiate addiction and recruit young women as dealers. Kwame had met one young woman who had told him about the parties but he knew that she had stopped attending some time ago so he didn't expect to see her again. However, one morning alone at his favourite breakfast of gari, groundnuts and condensed milk, he heard someone knocking on his chalet door....

The question has been asked before: why when poor people greatly outnumber the wealthy and every citizen has a vote, do electorates not put in power a government that will address the great injustice of extreme inequality? Could Jeremy Corbyn's success be due to the fact that he has convinced many people that he is ready to take action on this fundamental issue? If so, the proposed transaction tax would appear to be a powerful means of pursuing this end, and a policy likely to attract many more votes from those many people who are tired of suffering austerity at a time when the already wealthy are continuing to swell their fortunes....

The question has been asked before: why when poor people greatly outnumber the wealthy and every citizen has a vote, do electorates not put in power a government that will address the great injustice of extreme inequality? Could Jeremy Corbyn's success be due to the fact that he has convinced many people that he is ready to take action on this fundamental issue? If so, the proposed transaction tax would appear to be a powerful means of pursuing this end, and a policy likely to attract many more votes from those many people who are tired of suffering austerity at a time when the already wealthy are continuing to swell their fortunes....

Kwame Mainu was worried that unless Professor Thomas was satisfied that Ghanaian students coming to Warwick University were no longer carrying drugs he would cut off the funding for the programme. The Professor had come to Kumasi to see for himself and Kwame explained his mission to the reformed cartel members. 'Professor Thomas has come to visit us from the University of Warwick in England,' he said, 'Young men and women from Kumasi University have been visiting Warwick to gain new skills and experience to help their work in Ghana but some of them have been asked to carry drugs to England and have got into trouble with the police. Professor Thomas is very concerned about this situation and wants to be sure that when we send people in the future they will not be carrying drugs.' He repeated what he had said in Twi to make sure that his compatriots had understood....

Akos Mary was the Ghanaian wife of an English academic, Professor Tom Arthur of Warwick University. The couple lived in a comfortable house a few miles outside of Coventry and in August 1994 Akos Mary was expecting their first child to arrive before Christmas. There was no economic necessity for Akos Mary to work, but she found it difficult to adapt to a life without perms, plaits and ladies' chats. There was a demand for hairdressers skilled in the ways of African hair and the salon where she worked was reluctant to let her go. So she continued to indulge her artistic and social interests while adjusting her hours in inverse proportion to her expanding waistline. As the days shortened, she was compelled to restrict her services to a small group of long-term clients who had now become old friends. One of these was Auntie Rose....

Kwame Mainu's wife, Comfort, had left him just a few weeks before he was due to take his final examinations at Warwick University for an honours degree in engineering. It was only with great difficulty that he had managed to finish his training and care for their daughter, Akosua. Comfort's shoe business had prospered and she had acquired a large house in Nhyiasu, the Garden City of Kumasi. When Kwame's work again carried him back to Kumasi he was grateful for help and advice from his estranged wife. In fact, Comfort's help had been much more effective than that of Auntie Rose Mfumwa or the British man, Tam Gordon, both sent from the UK to support him. Working closely with Comfort was arousing again in Kwame feelings he had known long ago....

The Prime Minister was not available and King Freddie was getting more and more annoyed that his summons was not heeded. After repeated enquiries the duty footman was compelled to offer the king an explanation. The poor man looked embarrassed. 'I think the problem is that he's on a pointed-hat-off week,' he said at last....

It was in the days of Good King Freddie the Umpteenth that George replaced Cuthbert as Patron Saint and Minister for the Environment and began a pacification programme that ended the scourge of the monsters and restored peace to the land. The monarchs of other countries envied the success of England and began to request the assistance of the Rusty Knight. The first was King Pierre of France....

This is a true story. It happened sometime in the early 1980s on a routine flight from Accra to London. Setting out from Kotoka International Airport that evening, it was little suspected that the next few hours confined in that congested aerial cave would witness a minor drama demonstrating anew the frailty of human nature and the almost irresistible allure of sex and gold....

Kwame Mainu had succeeded in persuading his long-estranged wife, Comfort, to come back to him and their daughter, Akosua. Comfort flew from Ghana to join him in Coventry and help Akosua prepare for university. They would then return to Ghana to live in Comfort's house in Nhyiasu, the garden city of Kumasi. The only cloud on Kwame's horizon was the threat of a multitude of distant relatives demanding help with all their problems....

Sonya Carpenter was a young English lecturer from Warwick University helping with a course on job costing and financial accounting at Kumasi University in Ghana. Kwame Mainu's restored wife, Comfort, had offered to take Sonya on a dress shopping spree, so early one Saturday morning in 1997, Kwame drove Sonya to Comfort's house where she was introduced to Ashanti breakfast of red bean stew, fried ripe plantain and gari. Kwame could never understand how women could rush out to the shops after such a meal but that is what Comfort and Sonya did, leaving him with the output of the London printing presses of the previous two weeks....

Owners and technicians from small engineering industries in Ghana were introduced to the use of computers at a course at the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, in July 1996. At that time, only one enterprise had acquired a machine and the others wanted to know how they could buy computers at an affordable price. Later, at a meeting at Warwick University, Kwame Mainu and his colleague, Greg Anderson were pleasantly surprised when Professor Thomas, Head of the Computer Department, offered to donate his old computers to the project....

Suame Magazine in Kumasi is Ghana's largest informal industrial area and its main vehicles repair centre. It is home to thousands of small engineering workshops that offer a wide range of basic repair and manufacturing facilities. From the opening of the Intermediate Technology Transfer Unit (ITTU) in 1980, many efforts were made to forge links with large formal-sector businesses and international companies but with little success. Kwame Main reviewed progress on a visit to Suame in 1996....

From the time of independence in 1957, Ghanaian academics had been coming to Britain for both long-term training and research programmes and on short courses. In the 1970s, economic conditions in Ghana became very bad and many people sent overseas for training failed to return. This pattern of behaviour continued and in 1995 when two junior academics from Kumasi had completed their assignments at Warwick University, Kwame Mainu was determined to see them safely returned to Ghana. He decided to drive them to the airport and supervise their departure....

In the summer of 1994, Kwame Mainu was flying from Accra to London to escape the clutches of a Kumasi-based drugs smuggling cartel. Some cartel members had recently been released from prison in Ghana and as he had indirectly aided their incarceration he feared possible retribution against himself or his daughter. Sitting in the aeroplane, and hoping he had left his troubles behind, he was startled when his fourteen years old daughter, Akosua, told him that her mother had packed live snails in her suitcase....

'Where Moses Stood' is the latest in a series of books in which Robert Feather has put forward cogent arguments with much supporting evidence to persuade his readers that the three great western monotheistic religions had their origin in ancient Egypt during the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, 1349-1332 BCE. The Pharaoh dismissed the multiplicity of idols established by his forerunners and proclaimed the worship of one supreme god, Aton. He changed his name to Akhenaton (servant of Aton) and founded a new capital city, Akhetaton, near modern Amarna. Feather shows that this simplifying assumption which might have inspired a universal faith, became split into the rival sects of Judaism, Christianity and Islam....

Robert Feather has devoted much of his life to researching a very important issue: the origin of the three great western monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It is an issue that should concern the millions of adherents of these faiths but Feather encounters much opposition from committed authorities intent on defending their orthodoxies. In this situation, the author deserves the support and acclaim of all free and objective thinkers and he may be forgiven for an overabundance of enthusiasm and a tendency to offend academic susceptibilities....

Those who are old enough to remember the Olympic Games in London in 1948 will recall that all the athletes involved were amateurs. The four gold medals won by the Dutch mother of two, Fanny Blankers-Koen, inspired wonder, and the gallant failures of E MacDonald Baily and Wing Commander Don Finlay maintained a great British tradition. After a number of cases of suspected financial support enjoyed by some athletes, and a few disqualifications, a gradual relaxation of the rules governing amateur status got underway and by the 1990s all restrictions were abandoned and professional athletes were allowed to compete in all sports except boxing and wrestling. By this time, with the powerful aid of global television, big business had taken over not only the Olympic Games, but all sports that enjoyed a wide following. Why then, is there so much concern now over restricting the use of performance-enhancing drugs? Why treat chemical aid any differently from financial aid?...